This online course introduces AWS customers and current and potential machine learning practitioners to the practical Amazon approach to machine learning (ML). In this first video segment, students learn about the types of problems that Amazon is solving with machine learning and the methods and tools that are used in these solutions.

Approach machine learning from a business problem standpoint and work towards a technical solution.

Frame your business problem as a machine learning problem.

Use ML terminology and describe techniques in real-world business use cases.

Understand the end-to-end process of building ML models correctly, from posing the question/problem, collecting data, and building a model to evaluating model performance and integrating it into your application.